How do I get/see the URL that tRESTClient is generating?

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

I have been doing data work for about 20 years now, but I am VERY new to Talend.

I have setup a tRESTClient for pulling data from Zendesk.

When I run the job it says it is getting a return code of 200 (which is good), but no results returned.

That doesn't make any sense because when I run the same query in Postman I get several hundred results.

So I am trying to troubleshoot this and I would like to know how I can see the URL that the tRESTClient is generating and using to make the API call.

Any idea where that is?

Thanks.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Your URL looks wrong......but that is not causing the compilation error. You have "external_id:none" instead of "external_id=none". A colon is used instead of an equals symbol.

Your compilation error is caused (I believe) by the "Relative Path" being empty. I know I said to remove it, but I meant to replace it with an empty String (""). This is what it will have in an unconfigured component. Sorry, that was my fault.

[Anonymous]

Ah, thanks for clearing that up.

The Zendesk documentation explicitly states that a colon should be used when looking for "none" or null values.  They also specify using the colon for other things as well.

https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203663226

Woohoo! That did it though!  I am now getting data.

Now I just have to figure out how to process it....back to the tutorials.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH for your help in getting the API connection to work.  I really appreciate it.

Craig

[Anonymous]

No problem. Web services can be really tricky sometimes, even when you've spent ages working with them. It turns out that everyone who implements services does it in a slightly different way and documents them in completely different ways.....well that may be an exaggeration, but it certainly feels like it sometimes 😉